See more than 10,000 unusual flowers at Orchid Extravaganza

And since this is the Year of the Monkey, it is apt that it will be part of the largest orchid show here.

More than 10,000 orchids - from over 100 species and hybrids - will transform the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay into an enchanted forest.

The colourful spectacle is part of Orchid Extravaganza, a show organised by Gardens by the Bay in conjunction with the Singapore Garden Festival which opens on Saturday.

PRIMATE PLANT: The Monkey Face Orchid is a species of the Dracula orchid. TNP PHOTO: ISKANDAR ROSSALI

Senior manager of plant introduction at Gardens by the Bay, Ms Lim Mei Leng, 40, said: "(We) hope to highlight interesting and unusual orchids not commonly found in Singapore."

Ms Lim has 20 years of horticultural experience and even worked at London's Kew Gardens, which famously supplied Singapore with saplings from Brazilian seeds to grow its first rubber trees in the 1870s.